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  • I love F451, and it’s usually the book I recommend to people who want to get into serious/thought-provoking reading. It’s quite short for a novel and very approachable, the vocabulary isn’t too complex, the characters are easy to get into, and the story is compelling — it’s basically a light thriller. But when you put it down you can’t help but think, “wow, I just read something really important”
















  • True, but up till now we didn’t even know if a tidally locked planet around a red dwarf could even hold an atmosphere (since red dwarfs tend to have much more powerful x-ray flares, and planets sit much closer to them than our G-type sun). So the fact that this one does have lightweight Helium in the atmosphere would seem to significantly increase the odds that there’s life elsewhere, since red dwarfs are super common and if there’s 1 that can hold an atmosphere, odds are that there are many, many others.